Woven fabric.



No. 825,163. PATENTED JULY 3, 190B. W. 'I'. SMITH.

WOVEN FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.17.1905.

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VILLIAM T. SMITH, OF PHTLADELPHTA, PENNSYLVANTA. WOVEN FABmo. No. 825,163. Specification of Letters Patent. 'ratented July 3, 1906- Application filed March 17, 1905. Serial No. 250,618. To all whom it may concern: chenille-surface weft-threads; 2, the heavy- Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. SMITH, a backing weft-threads, which may be comcitizen of the United States, residingi Philaposed of cotton, jute, or other cheap material; delphia, Pennsylvania, have invented cer- 8, the separator warp threads, an 5 the tain Tm rovements in Voven Fabrics, of tying Warp-threads, which are so shedded as 6o which the following is a specification. to pass over the cores of the chenille weft- The object of my invention is to produce threads 1, thence down between successivelyat a small fraction of the cost of an orienta introduced backing weft threads 2, and rug or carpet a fabric closely resembling the thence beneath said backing weft-threads, as same and constituting a cheap and acceptshown in Fig. 1. As a consequence of this able substitute therefor. This object T attain method of weaving the loops or bights of the in the following manner, reference being had chenille weft-threads are drawn down to a to the accompanying drawings, in whichd greater or less extent into the sp aces e- Figure 1 represents an exaggerated section tween the backing weft-threads 2, so as to be of a piece of fabric made in accordance with visible from the back of the fabric in some- 7o my invention, this section being taken in the what the same Way as the loops or bights of direction of the warp, an ig. 2 is a transthe pile-knots or tufts of an oriental carpet or verse section of the same-that is to say, a secrug fabric. tion taken in the direction of the weft. Each set of warp-threads may comprise a An ordinary oriental rug or carpet consists pair of separator warp-threads 3, and either a of separate knots or tufts independently sesingle-binding warp-thread 4 or a plurality of cured in position upon a supporting-warp, so such binding warp-threads, and the separator that the face of the ru@ presents a projecting warp threads and binding warp thread or pile, wh'le the back o the rug shows a patthreads of each set maypass through the same tern corresponding to that of the face, but of sp ace of the reed or the binding warp thread 8o a less pronounced character, owing to e exor threads may pass through a different sp ace posure or partial exposure of the loops or of the reed from that which receives the sepabights of the knots or tufts whose projecting rator warp-threads. ends constitute the pile-surface. Preferably a binding warp-thread is dis- My improved abric has a pile-surface comosed between a pair of separator warpposed of one-sided chenille,apacklng comthreads, as shown in ig. Z of the drawings, posed of heavy weft-threads, interposed sepaalthough said binding w arp-thread may be at rator warp-threads, and tying warp-threads, one side of the pair of sep aratorwarp-threads, whereby the chenille weft-threads of the face or where a plurality of binding warp-threads and the backing weft-threads are confined to are employed there may be one at each side 9o said separator warp-threads, and said fabric of said pair or one at each side of the pair and can be woven in a power-loom, and hence can one between the pair. be produced much more cheaply and expedi- Having thus described my invention, T tiously than an ordinary oriental carpet or claim and desire to secure by Letters Patrug fabric. ent- 95 1. A woven fabric in which are combined backing weft-threads, a pile-face consisting of weft-threads of one-sided chenille, sep arator warp-threads interposed between sai face and back weft-threads, and binding roc warp-threads passing over said chenille-face weft-threads and under and between successive backing weft-threads, whereby he bights or loops at the back of the chenilleface weft-threads are drawn down between Io successive weft-threads of the backing so as to be visible on the back of the fabric, substantially `fie 2. A woven fabric in which are combined backing weft-threads, a pile-face consisting I one-sided chenille T mean a chenille in which the tufting or pile-thre ads all project in one direction from a core or other sup ort as distinguished from a round chenille om which the pile-threads or tufts project in a directions. Such chenille is employed the form of a party-colored strip, the character of the coloring and the disposition of the colors in the strip depending upon the desired pattern to be produced in the finished fabric, such party-colored chenille strip being introduced as a weft-thread by means of a shuttle in the same manner as in weaving an ordinary yarn.

1n the drawings,

1 represents the one-sided of weft-threads of one-sided chenille, separal tor warp-threads interposed between the face and back weft-threads, and binding warv threads passing over said chenille-face weig- 5 threads and under and between successive backing weft-threads, whereby the bights or l loops at the back of the chenille-face weftthread being disposed between a pair of separator warp-threads, substantially asspeciied.

WILLIAM T. SMITH. eads are drawn down between successive weft-threads of the backing so as to be visible :o on the back of the fabric, each binding warpl Witnesses .GEORGE HEAD, RoBT. O. STERNER. 

